 Image from a quicklink (Image by Unknown Owner) Details DMCA | While I was living in Norway, a shadowy branch of the U.S. Treasury Department put a block on my bank account. Where did I go wrong? Was it playing percussion with an Occupy Wall Street band in Times Square when I was in New York recently? Or was it when I returned to my peaceful new home in Oslo and deleted an email invitation to hear Newt Gingrich lecture Norwegians on the American election? (Yes, even here.) I don't know how it happened. Or even, really, what happened. Or what it means. So I've got no point -- only a lot of anxiety. I usually write about the problems of the world, but now I've got one of my own. They evidently think I'm a terrorist. That is, someone in the US govt who specializes in finding terrorists seems to have found me and laid a heavy hand on my bank account. I think this is wrong, of course, but try to tell that to a faceless, acronymic govt agency... |
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